To ship without disas-ter,

And it wouldn't never do

When the cap'n and the crew

Were a set o' little swabs all plas-ter!

Chorus—So to navigate the Serpentine, &c.

An Ark is p'raps The berth for chaps

As is fond o' Natural Hist'ry.

But I sez to Shem

And the rest o' them,

"How you get along at all's a myst'ry!